Nonequilibrium effects during spontaneous imbibition

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 127-146

  Le Guen, S S ^a   Kovscek, A R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computerized tomography; Imbibition; Laboratory studies; Nonequilibrium effects; Self Similarity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS;

CAPILLARY EQUILIBRIUM; NONEQUILIBRIUM EFFECTS; SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION;

MULTIPHASE FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS;

FLUID FLOW; IMBIBITION;

EID: 33645473402     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-005-3327-4     Document Type: Article

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